Sentence examples for civil environments from inspiring English sources

Above all, there was the church, or the parish, which offered the nearest approximation to the open, civil environments of today's public realm.

Studies [ 27, 28] have shown that social stigma and punitive civil environments may lead to delays in seeking HIV and STI testing, and subsequent initiation of antiretroviral therapy [ 18].

"The commissioner is prepared to testify, as long as it is a civil environment," Mr. Lhota said, adding that the council member should take "distemper pills".

Because the First Amendment also bars any prohibition of individual free exercise of religion, and because religious organizations cannot be isolated from the basic government functions that create the civil environment, it is as much necessary as it is difficult to draw lines between forbidden aid and lawful benefit.

The design of Non-Destructive-Testing systems for fault detection in long and not accessible pipelines is an actual task in the industrial and civil environment.

In an effort to "maintain a civil environment" and prevent the "trolls from taking over," says Huffington, in addition to the site's own paid comment moderators, readers are encouraged to flag inappropriate comments.

Maintaining a civil environment for real conversation and community has always been key to The Huffington Post.

Starting with engagement -- putting the HuffPost community front and center, and creating a civil environment in which thousands of conversations can take place at any moment.

Its objective is to create a secure, sustainable, civil environment in Pakistan that will undermine the root causes and appeal of militancy that gives rise to threats against our national security.

We pre-moderated all comments, developed state-of-the-art moderation technology, and hired a platoon of human moderators -- a 40-person-strong team to supplement the technology and ensure a civil environment.

Former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said on ABC that "the attack yesterday and the attempted pipe bombings over the course of last week should be a wake-up call for all Americans to demand change," and those demands should include "a more civil discourse, and a more civil environment generally".